The possibility of Applying the Requirements of Clause Seven of ISO/IEC 17025:2017 / A Case Study in the Inorganic Pollutants Laboratory at the Ministry of Science and Technology in Iraq

Abstract

This research aims to test the possibility of applying the seventh item (process requirements) according to the specification ISO/IEC 17025:2017 in order to see the size of the gap between the conditions of the seventh paragraph and the actual reality in the laboratory of inorganic pollutants of the department of environment, water and renewable energies, one of the formations of the ministry of science and technology, which was chosen as a research model, this research adopts a case study approach using the checklist as a tool for data collection, and statistical methods were used to obtain the search results, represented in (weighted arithmetic mean, percentage measurement, and gap size measurement), the examination list included eleven axes, which are as follows (review of requests, tenders and contracts, selection, verification and validation of methods, sampling, handling of test or calibration items, technical records, evaluation of measurement uncertainty, ensuring the validity of results, reporting of results, complaints, nonconforming work, control of data and information management), which are included under the seventh item of the standard ISO/IEC 17025:2017, except for item (7.8.4 specific conditions for calibration certificates) because the laboratory does not issue calibration certificates, because its field of work is testing and not calibration. The research reached a set of conclusions, the most important of which is that there is a gap between the actual reality of the research laboratory and the conditions of the process item, as the total gap reached (25%) while the percentage matching rate reached (75%), The research also presented a set of recommendations, the most important of which is adopting the evaluation results produced by the checklists in accordance with the requirements of the process requirements clause in order to determine the actual reality of the researched laboratory and the necessity of adopting the application of the process clause.